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Kalahari melon oil also known as Tsamma (Damara/Nama), wild watermelon (English), bitterboela, karkoer (Afrikaans), wild watermelon, makatane (Setswana) [1] or Mokaté oil, [2] is a plant oil, extracted from the seeds of the Kalahari melon (Citrullus vulgaris), [2] which is endemic to the Kalahari Desert, spanning Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. [3]
Watermelon seed oil is extracted by pressing from the seeds of the Citrullus lanatus (watermelon). It is particularly common in West Africa , where it is also called ootanga oil . The common watermelon most likely originated almost 5,000 years ago in the Kalahari Desert .
Dr. Joseph Mercola cites a study where subjects who drank "watermelon juice prior to their workouts had reduced muscle soreness 24 hours later, compared to those who drank a placebo."
A further byproduct called tall oil fatty acid (TOFA) is a cheap source of oleic acid. [219] Tamanu or foraha oil [220] from the Calophyllum tacamahaca, is important in Polynesian culture, and, although very expensive, [220] is used for skin care. [221] Tonka bean oil (Cumaru oil), popular ingredient in cologne, used medicinally in Brazil. [222]
Ual-Ual, better known as Walwal or Welwel, was an important complex of 359 wells used by Somali, English, Italian and Ethiopian nomads, located within the deserts of the Ogaden, in an area where the borders were not well defined, between Italian Somalia and the Ethiopian Empire. [5]
[2] [3] The juice is also available ready-mixed with coconut water or blueberry juice. [2] The brand is named after Tsamma, a local name for a type of watermelon found in sub-Saharan Africa, said to be "the Mother of all watermelon varieties"; [2] however, the juice is farmed from watermelons grown in the Midwest and Southern United States. [3]
orange pigments . α-Carotene – to vitamin A carrots, pumpkins, maize, tangerine, orange.; β-Carotene – to vitamin A dark, leafy greens, red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables.
A map of Ethiopian Empire, the land at the centre of the crisis.. The Abyssinia Crisis, [nb 1] also known in Italy as the Walwal incident, [nb 2] was an international crisis in 1935 that originated in a dispute over the town of Walwal, which then turned into a conflict between Fascist Italy and the Ethiopian Empire (then commonly known as "Abyssinia").